Children fill containers with drinking water in the Old City of Sanaa on Wednesday. (Reuters)

RIYADH: King Saud University (KSU) has launched a major initiative to support thousands of orphans in Yemen, whose social and financial conditions have worsened following the uprisings in the country.

“The university has announced plans to train young Yemeni orphans in beekeeping and honey production,” said Hamid Ziad, the chief of Yemen’s Orphans Development Foundation (ODF) who is currently visiting the Kingdom with a delegation.

“The Yemeni delegation visited Riyadh-based KSU and interacted with the faculty, who operate a major KSU Chair for Bee Research to learn more about the specialty with which ODF can develop life skills programs for more than 14,000 orphans below 16,” said Ziad. The move is significant keeping in view the large number of helpless women and children, especially orphans, who have been rendered homeless following the unrest in the country.

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